Bernard Braun (Universitat Bremen) Jens-Uwe Niehoff (Altwustrow) The German Health Services System under transformation The political languages still demands reforms. But the German health services system is going to transform into a different one. There are three main aspects of that transformation to identify: the transformation of financing the funds the transformation of the servicesContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: B. Braun & J-U Niehoff”
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Stockholm 2003 abstracts: M. Johansson
Mauri Johansson, MD, MHH Public Health Partner Specialist in Community and Occupational Medicine Sportsvej 17 7441 Bording Denmark Do we need a new research concept for health policy problems? Analysing research in the field of public health and health policy from a philosophical point of view we meet an overwhelming amount of articles based onContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: M. Johansson”
Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Hasselhorn HM et al.
Hasselhorn HM(1), Josephson M(2), Lindberg P(2), Tackenberg P(3), Mueller BH(3) and the NEXT-Study Group (1) Department of Occupational Medicine, University of Wuppertal, Germany (2) Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden (3) Department of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, University of Wuppertal, Germany Intent to leave nursing among nurses in Europe – First results from the European NEXT-STUDY Introduction:Continue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Hasselhorn HM et al.”
Stockholm 2003 abstracts: J. Lethbridge
Jane Lethbridge Senior Research Fellow Public Service International Research Unit PSIRU- CMS, University of Greenwich Park Row London SE10 9LS +44 8331 7781 Social and economic destabilisation in Europe: implications for health Abstract This paper will examine how public (health) sector unions are responding to changes caused by deregulation. Some of these changes – theContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: J. Lethbridge”
Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Ida Hellander (USA)
da Hellander, MD PNHP Executive Director Corporate Health Care Begets Fraud: Recent US Experience ABSTRACT: Many countries are currently engaged in debates over the privatization of their health systems. Privatization is advocated by the IMF and World Bank way of decreasing government expenditures on health and improving efficiency, despite much evidence to the contrary. PreviousContinue reading “Stockholm 2003 abstracts: Ida Hellander (USA)”
13th IAHPEurope Conference – Stockholm 2003
13th IAHPEurope Conference Social and economic destabilisation in Europe: implications for health Wednesday 21st May to Saturday 24th May 2003 Stockholm Sweden The National Institute of Public Health The conference will debate questions like What are the likely impacts of flexibility, deregulation and fragmentation in working conditions and relationships on health? Including: the impact ofContinue reading “13th IAHPEurope Conference – Stockholm 2003”
Stockholm 2003: Health sector reform in Palestine
Motasem HAMDAN 1) Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 2) School of Public Health, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem. 13th IAHPEurope Conference “Social and economic destabilisation in Europe: implications for health” May 21st to24th 2003, Stockholm, Sweden Health workforce in political and economic destabilisation: the interaction between health sector reform and humanContinue reading “Stockholm 2003: Health sector reform in Palestine”
Downsizing of acute beds & privatisation
Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland’s case study Matthew G Dunnigan, senior research fellow, Allyson M Pollock, professor a University Department of Human Nutrition, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER, b Public Health Policy Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London, London WC1H 9QU Correspondence to: A M PollockContinue reading “Downsizing of acute beds & privatisation”
European Social Forum: “Health and neoliberalism” (english / italian / french / spanish)
Another Health Care System is possible The “Health and Neoliberalism” seminar, held in November 7th, in Florence, within the initiatives of the European Social Forum, has resulted in the following document which we submit to all the European Social Movements. Health is a fundamental and universal right which belongs to everyone and must be freeContinue reading “European Social Forum: “Health and neoliberalism” (english / italian / french / spanish)”
Private finance & “value for money”, by A. Pollock et al.
Pollock AM, Shaoul J, Vickers N. Private finance and “value for money” in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale? British Medical Journal, 2002; 324: 1205-1209 Summary points: The private finance initiative (PFI) brings no new capital investment into public services and is a debt which has to be serviced by future generations.Continue reading “Private finance & “value for money”, by A. Pollock et al.”
